I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.

The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.